Welcome! This site describes Malvern Priory organ, its  complete rebuild and redesign, together with details of recitals. You will find interesting photographs of the inside of the organ before rebuilding and during the work, together with details of music in the Priory, the Priory Choirs, CDs of the Choir and organ.

---

Director of Music:  David Iliff

---

MALVERN PRIORY ORGAN RECITALS

 

2010 SERIES Follow this link for details of previous recitals

Saturday   27 February 12.00 noon Nicholas Woods Organist Malvern Priory 1996-9 Concert Overture in C min     Hollins Master Tallis’ Testament       Howells Marcia Eroica                       Stanford Rhosymedre                         Vaughan Williams Prelude ‘Hyfrydol’                 Adams TubaTune                            Cocker Folk Tune                            Whitlock Ceremonial March                Sumsion Orb and Sceptre                  Walton

NEXT RECITAL   Saturday   24 April  12.00 noon Christopher Barton Newport Cathedral   Introduction and Allegro in D             Bache Dies sind die heil’gen zehn Gebot     J. S. Bach Prelude and Fugue in E minor          J. S. Bach Four Sketches                                Schumann Cantiga                                           Ian Seeley Entrée, Récit and Postlude               Michel

Saturday   26 June  12.00 noon Gary Sieling Bromley Parish Church

Monday   30 August  12.00 noon Andrew Millington Exeter Cathedral

Saturday   27 November  12.00 noon Paul Carr  St Paul's Birmingham

Duration about 1 hour.  Free admission - retiring collection Recitals given with large screen video projection - see photo above

LINK TO OTHER CONCERTS IN THE AREA: Malvern Concert Club LINK TO FORTHCOMING ORGAN RECITALS:    Organ Recitals Listings LINK TO CATHEDRAL AND CHURCH CHOIRS: Cathedral and Parish Church Choirs

---

ORGANS OF MALVERN PRIORY A new book by Tony Hughes on the history of the Priory's organs including the recent rebuild. Illustrated with historic photographs and colour pictures of the rebuilt organ. Price £3.50, including postage from Dr A J Hughes 8 Birchwood Road Malvern WR14 1LD

---

A CD of 26 Favourite Hymns - 'How joyful 'tis to sing'  click here for details

 

 

 

                  

 

A CD of the rebuilt organ played by Andrew Wilson - click here for details

---

Details of the Priory Choir's CD S:     O Praise The Lord Favourite anthems from the Choir's repertoire Lift Up Your Heads A CD of familiar and less familiar Advent, Christmas and Epiphany music with solo music played on the rebuilt organ

For details of the 2004 organ rebuilding and photographs of the rebuilding work click here

---

 

Geoff Fearnehough - Recital Organiser; Website design  email office@greatmalvernpriory.org.uk

Musical Matters - email office@greatmalvernpriory.org.uk

Great Malvern Priory, nestling in the slopes of the Malvern Hills, Worcestershire, in the centre of England, is the main town church for the Malvern area. It has been described by Pevsner as a monastic church 'rarely built so sweepingly' and is of considerable architectural interest with styles from Norman to Perpendicular. Its treasures from mediaeval times include misericords, glazed tiles and some of the finest stained glass in the country.

The Priory serves an active and growing community, embracing a wide range of worship styles. It has an extensive variety of youth and musical groups, including a total of about 80 singers, juniors and adults, who can be called upon to sing the weekly services, all combining forces on special occasions. The organ is widely used by the church and the community in general; some five civic services and ten local school services per year are held, as well as concerts, organ recitals and teaching sessions.

More information on Malvern Priory can be found at http://www.greatmalvernpriory.org.uk

Director of Music:  David Iliff
Malvern Priory has two choirs of about 40 adults and 20 children:
1) Priory Choir - men and children
2) Priory Singers - mixed voice adults
In addition there is a Praise Group and an orchestra (children and adults).

The main choirs sing four-part anthems at each service and traditional canticles - (Stanford, Howells, Ireland, Dyson etc.).

Some Recent Anthems Sung at the Priory:
Bainton And I saw a new heaven
Byrd Ave verum corpus, Justorum animae
Durufle Ubi caritas at amor, Tantum ergo
Gibbons Almighty and everlasting God
Howells Like as the hart; A Spotless Rose
Mawby I will lift up my eyes
Palestrina Sicut cevus, Canite tuba
Philips Surgens Jesu
Stanford Ye choirs of new Jerusalem
Stravinsky Pater noster
Sumsion They that go down to the sea in ships
Tallis 0 nata lux, 0 Lord give thy holy spirit
Victoria Pueri Hebraeorum
Wood Expectans expectavi; 0 thou the central orb,;Hail gladdening light
Canticle settings
Howells 'Collegium Regale' Te Deum & Julbilate, Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis
Leighton Second service
Tomkins Fifth service
Stanford In C & G
Sumsion In G
Wood In D
Recent Voluntaries played at Malvern Priory :
Bach, Prelude & Fugue in E flat major
Bach, Fantasia & Fugue in G minor
Krebs, Prelude & Fugue in C
Alain, Litanies
Guilmant, Sonata No. 1 in D minor
Guilmant, Sonata No. 5 in C minor
Guilmant, March on a theme by Handel
Handel, Overture to ‘Occasional Oratorio’
Wills, Variations on Amazing Grace
Buxtehude, Prelude, Fugue & Chaconne in C
Hovland, Toccata on ‘Now thank we all our God’
Locklair, Rubrics
Reger, Dankpsalm
Howells, Psalm Prelude Set 1, No. 1
Walton, Crown Imperial
Mendelsohn, Sonata No. 2 in C

Bach Preludes and Fugues, Trio Sonata movements,
Chorale Preludes from Orgelbuchlein'and 'The 18'
Bridge Adagio in E
Buxtehude Praeludien, Chorale Preludes
Dubois Toccata in G, Marche des Rois Mages
Guilmant Noels, March on a Theme of Handel
Howells Master Tailis's Testament, Paean, Psalm Preludes, Rhapsody no.3
Messiaen Les Anges, Les Mages
Mulet Carillon-Sortie, Tu es petra
Rheinberger Sonata 4
Schumann Prelude no.6 on BACH
Stanford Postlude in D minor op.105 no.6
Vierne Final (Symphony no. 1), Carillon op.31 no.21)

Widor Toccata Symphony No 5

Site visitors since December 2005

Photography: Geoff Fearnehough.  
Photographs of the Priory Choir in Coventry Cathedral, Procession in the Priory, Jack Lewis Memorial and Medal: John Willis

Copyright Malvern Priory Choirs. This site was updated in February 2010